New! Direct Download for LifeInPocket – Turn by Turn Navigation
Updated 22-Apr-2010: Until recently, the only way to get Life in Pocket was to visit the LifeInPocket.com PC site and to register and then push the app to your Boost or Nextel phone. The PC site is Flash based and doesn’t work with mobile browsers, so users without a PC were out of luck. Now Life in Pocket has made their LIPsignup app available for direct download from a mobile friendly page at lifeinpocket.com/s.html.
The direct download doesn’t work with iDEN phones but it did make it possible for me to add to to BoostApps where Boost iDEN and Nextel USA users can send it to their phones using the Send to Phone button below.
Note that the LIPsignup app is just a small 33KB loader that lets you register for the service. When you register be sure to choose the right carrier (Boost or Nextel) and enter your mobile number correctly as 10 digits with no leading “1”. When you finish registering, exit the signup app and go to Download Apps again and you will see a new “LIP_056” download – which is the actual 736 KB Life In Pocket App.
LifeInPocket is the only free GPS aware turn by turn navigation app with voice guidance I’ve found that runs on the Motorola iDEN phones. It actually does a lot more than just navigation including free messaging with other LifeInPocket users, a friend and family locator, address book and text note synchronization, calendar, task manager, weather forecasts and a news reader.
LifeInPocket tries to do too much, in my opinion. It’s a huge app, consuming over a megabyte of precious space on the handset. Navigating the menus is confusing and the LifeInPocket website is worse. Fortunately the core navigation feature works really well, with loud, clear and timely voice prompts. There’s no reason to pay $9.95/month for BoostNavigator or Sprint Navigation when LifeInPocket does the same thing for free.
Type: Freeware
Author: Roadcomm
Data Connection Required: Yes
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon Series with Java (i776, i465, i9, i290, etc.)
Does NOT work on Boost CDMA phones like the Incognito, Juno, Seek or Factor.
File Size: 736 KB
Downloading uses paid data. Downloads are for Java ME phones only.
To download and install click here: DOWNLOAD (jad)
Walter, Life In Pocket is not a great app. It’s slow, takes up a big chunk of the space available for loading apps, the user interface is a confusing mess and sometimes it refuses to plot a route.
But it is the only free turn by turn navigation app with voice Guidance that works on iDEN phones.
is this app that bad? i was thinking about giving it a try on my cluth but im not sure anymore. can anyone explain? thax.
Great APP??? Did someone actually write that?
You’ve got to be kidding me! What have you been doing for directions before My Life…dropping “bread crumbs” like Hansel and Gretel?
Let me be brutally honest! The My Life APP is the biggest POS and the most rudimentary APP that I have experienced in a long time!
Sometimes you can get a great app for free, but not in this case!
The website and the instructions are crap too!
Thanks to My Life for trying, but do yourself a favor…buy a GPS device if you need directions!
Sorry, but I have to tell it like it is in order to save others from wasting time trying to decipher this train wreck!
This is a great app that makes my cheap Boost phone useful if you follow the instruction to personalize for your own life style.
Navigation voice is loud, clear and precise. Fully hands and almost eyes free, web features are on click without typing. It’ss faster and much smaller than Telenav’s $10 per month nav only app.
No, but when you resume it doesn’t it pick up where it left off? That’s what I’d expect to happen though I haven’t actually gotten a call while using it